[2] For its first year, the high school shared the ornate four-story main building with Eden students.

[citation needed] This plan was realized in a way forty years later with the opening of the Normandy Residence Center, which became the University of Missouri-St.

[2] Due to large enrollment, a separate junior high school was planned and built in 1949; however, a fire damaged the original junior high school building that year, and while construction was ongoing on the new building, classes were held in two sessions a day.

[citation needed] The school serves 24 separate municipalities in St. Louis County including unincorporated areas.

[citation needed] The district encompasses an economically depressed region of St. Louis County including industrial areas such as iron works and scrapyards.